Wine Industry News

  • Grape wall of China: Australia's wine saviour

    HIT HARD by a grape glut and higher dollar, Australia's wine industry is looking to a new saviour - stylish young professionals in China with a taste for our finest shiraz. Australian wine exports to China grew by 36 per cent last year, overtaking the growth of the British, US and Canadian wine m...
  • Lloyd Webber wine sells for £3.5m

    Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber's wine collection has sold for US$5.6m (£3.5m) at an auction in Hong Kong. Among the 746 lots, the most expensive case of wine was a Chateau Petrus 1982, 12 bottles going for $77,564 (£48,500). The collection's sale price beat previous price expectations and Lord Lloyd...
  • Winegrape Vineyards Can Yield More Dollars

    Santa Rosa, Calif.—At a time when wineries are limiting grape purchases and the prices they are willing to pay, grape growers are getting squeezed. The “Increasing Dollars Per Acre” panel at the Sonoma County Winegrape Commission’s 20th annual Dollars and $ense seminar yesterday advised its ...
  • France: Pesticides seen as threat to wine growers

    (UPI) -- The death of a French winegrower has been linked to the chemicals he and others in the wine industry have used for decades, French health officials say.Yannick Chenet, 43, who died of leukemia, is among some 40 farmers in France whose illnesses have now been linked to their profession and t...
  • Vintners, regulators agree on diluted rules for wine regions

    WASHINGTON -- California winemakers have successfully pruned some labeling regulations they feared could hurt business, following a long behind-the-scenes lobbying campaign.After being pressed by everyone from the Paso Robles, Calif., mayor to California's congressional delegation, Treasury Departm...
  • Michel Rolland stars in new wine film

    Winemakers Michel Rolland, Susana Balbo, Jean Bousquet and other major names in the wine world are starring in a new drama-documentary being premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival. El Camino del Vino tells the story of real-life Uruguayan sommelier Charlie Arturaola, one of the top somm...
  • New Australia, NZ importer breaks new ground

    Hallowed Ground, an importer with a new way of selling wine in the UK, is being pioneered by two entrepreneurs. The company desribes itself as ‘an exclusive membership club’ for high end Australian and New Zealand producers. Run by Amelia Jukes and Elodie Cameron, both of whom have a good deal ...
  • US: Trincheros donate land

    Sutter Home and Trinchero Family Estates founders Bob and Evalyn Trinchero have donated over 1,450ha to Napa County Regional Park and Lake Berryessa Resort Improvement Districts. The action will allow a right of way to previously inaccessible Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land. Park district di...

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